As predicted by theorists, experiments show that barium zirconium sulfide thin films hold great promise for solar cells, LEDs Scientists have created thin films made from barium zirconium su... Read more
Scientists find new way to capture heat that otherwise would have been lost An international team of scientists has figured out how to capture heat and turn it into electricity. The discover... Read more
Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed organic solar cells optimised to convert ambient indoor light to electricity. The power they produce is low, but is probably enough to feed the... Read more
Tumor cells circulating in blood are markers for the early detection and prognosis of cancer. However, detection of these cells is challenging because of their scarcity. In the journal Angew... Read more
“Flexible and Superwettable Bands as a Platform toward Sweat Sampling and Sensing” Like other biofluids, sweat contains a wealth of information about what’s going on inside the body. However... Read more
Expanding monoculture threatens valuable services from land, such as flood control, water purification and climate stabilization. A new approach promises to protect these benefits, while imp... Read more
Scientists in China have developed a process for converting plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel. Their research, published March 21 in the jour... Read more
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the “Chinese artificial sun”, achieved an electron temperature of over 100 million degrees in its core plasma... Read more
An Earth observation satellite, called TanSat, has produced its first global carbon dioxide maps. TanSat was launched by a collaborative team of researchers in China, and these maps are the... Read more
Researchers have designed a “fire alarm wallpaper” made of environmentally friendly, nonflammable materials—including some of the materials found in bone, teeth, and hormones—tha... Read more
Direct conversion of rusty stainless steel mesh into stable, low-cost electrodes for potassium-ion batteries Chinese scientists have made good use of waste while finding an innovative soluti... Read more
As the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere, nitrogen has been an attractive option as a source of renewable energy. But nitrogen gas — which consists of two nitrogen atoms he... Read more
Approach tackles most commonly used synthetic plastic A new way of recycling millions of tons of plastic garbage into liquid fuel has been devised by researchers from the University of Calif... Read more
In a doughnut-shaped chamber in eastern China, scientists have been able to produce hydrogen gas more than three times hotter than the core of the Sun using nuclear fusion – and mainta... Read more
China is well-known for investing in technological advancements – from space explorations to military warfare. In its latest groundbreaking invention, soldiers are now in possession of Star... Read more
